NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

iv is a pure-perl application that was written to mimic the behavior of the image view and manipulation program irfanview, which is available as freeware on Windows.

Linux already offers many free image view and manipulation programs, but none gave me the key-driven approach that I liked in IrfanView, and most left traces of what was viewed in hidden files (thumbnail previews etc).

iv is not written to be a better image viewer. It is written to prove such an application can be written in perl and still is fast and versatile enough to need my (own) needs.

iv is not aiming for a complete rewrite of IrfanView.

Command Line Arguments

-v[#]

Set verbose level. Default value is 0. A plain -v without value will set the level to 1.

-f

Start in full-screen mode. Thumbnail view will not be full-screen, but the displayed images will. This overrules the default option from .ivrc files.

-s

Start the slideview on open automatically.

-1

After populating the thumbnail view, immediately display the first image and minimize the thumbnail view.

Options

Options are case insensitive. They are read from /etc/iv.rc, /etc/.ivrc, ~/iv.rc, ~/.ivrc, ./iv.rc, ./.ivrc, image_dir/iv.rc and image_dir/.ivrc (in that order if available).

Not (yet) local per dir, so the last one read stays active and overrules the previous settings.

thumbSize => 80, # in pixels
size of the thumbnails in the thumbview. default 80x80
thumbRows => 5,
number of rows in the thumbview. default 5
thumbPosition => "se",
position of the thumbview on the screen. default se (bottom right)
possible values: n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw, c
thumbRefresh => 1,
when deleting images, the thumb preview is also deleted, and all
thumbs then have to be re-displayed in order to fill the gap. When
deleting images out of a long sequence, this will take a long time.
Disabling the refresh will make the cleanup procedure go faster,
but will cause errors/warnings when you re-visit the thumb that
has been deleted
thumbSorting => "default",
defines the ordering of the thumbnails in the thumbview.
default : on the numeric part of the image name, then on the full name
caseless: on the lower-cased image name
date : on mtime
size : on (file) size
random : random
thumbSortOrder => "ascending",
ordering of the thumbs. default ascending. possible values ascending
or descending
imagePosition => "nw",
position of the image window. default nw (top-left)
possible values: n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw, c
imageDir => ".",
default image dir (current folder)
slideShowDelay => 1500, # in milliseconds
in slide shows, define the display time for each image. default: 1500 ms
slidePosition => "c",
position of the full image in slide-show mode. default c (center)
possible values: n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw, c
slideFull => 0,
display images auto-fit in slide-show mode. default 0 (off)
slideCover => 0,
EXPERIMENTAL
cover the background when in slideshow mode
titleDirs => 0
The number of dir levels (counted from the end) that should be included
in the image title
titleIndex => 0
display the index of the image in the image title. (default off)
When on, the title of the image window is extended with " n/N", where
n is the index and N is the total number of images in the current
thumb-view
maxX => 9999,
maximum horizontal resolution (some size quests are unreliable)
maxY => 9999,
maximum vertical resolution (some size quests are unreliable)
smallFont => "{Liberation Mono} 8",",
define the font for labels
selectionFont => "{Liberation Sans} 5",
the font used to display information with the selection rectangle
selectionColor => "Yellow",
the color used when drawing selection rectangles
confirmDelete => 1,
ask for confirmation when deleting images. default 1 (true)
removeTarget => 0,
remove target folder when it is empty. default 0 (false)
imageFull => 0,
show images full-screen. default 0 (off). Full-screen resizes the
image to automatically fit the screen height or screen-width when
maintaining aspect ratio. Also sometimes called auto-fit.
lastFirstNext => 0,
If set will cause keys_nextpic on the last pic to open the first
pic of the next set as if keys_firstnext was used
showExifInfo => 0,
show a summary of the exif info of the image on the image
exifInfoColor => "Blue",
the color if the exif info text on the image for showexifinfo
decoration => 1,
show the screen control elements. Default 1 (on). Some window
managers support full control, either by keys or mouse, even when
the borders and title bar are gone. Some refuse to do scroll bars
and such when the decoration is disabled. YMMV
scrollSpeed => 3,
The default scroll increments for Tk::Canvas is a bit too course
for fine-grained scrolling. A low value enables precise positioning
with the scroll wheel, high values scroll fast.
dirTreeStartPos => 0.,
The initial position of the dir tree view relative from the top.
The default is to show the top of the tree if there is more than
the current window to be viewed and a scrollbar is shown. Setting
dirTreeStartPos to 1. will show the bottom of the tree on startup.
A value of .5 will show the middle.

Key bindings

Key bindings. Most are the same as the windows program IrfanView, after which iv was initially modeled

Thumb view Image view
keys_quit
q ESC Quit program Close image,
return to thumbs
keys_quit_all
Q Control-q Quit program Quit program
keys_options
o Open option window -
keys_firstpic
0 1 a Open first pic id
keys_prevpic
Left Up BS Prev pic (round robin) id
keys_nextpic
Space Right Down Next pic id
When LastFirstNext is false (default), this
will round-robin to the first pic, otherwise
it will open the first pic in the next set
keys_lastpic
9 z Open last pic id
keys_firstnext
v - Open first pic in next folder
keys_firstprev
^ - Open first pic in prev folder
keys_fullscreen
f F11 - Toggle auto-fit
keys_fitwidth
b - Zoom to fit screen-width
keys_fitheight
h - Zoom to fit screen-height
keys_origsize
o - Display in original size
keys_full_toggle
Alt-f - Toggle auto-fit and remember
for next sets
keys_full_rc
F - Switch to auto-fit and save
in ./.ivrc
keys_rotleft
l - Rotate image left (90°
anti-clockwise)
keys_rotexifl
L - Rotate image left (90° anti-
clockwise) in the EXIF info,
and store the change in the
image file
keys_rotright
r - Rotate image right (90°
clockwise)
keys_rotexifr
R - Rotate image right (90°
clockwise) in the EXIF info,
and store the change in the
image file
keys_zoomin
plus - Zoom in with 20% steps.
keys_zoomout
minus - Zoom out with 20% steps.
keys_delete
Delete - Delete image from disk
keys_slideshow
w s Start slideshow id
keys_exif
i - Show EXIF info
keys_exifinfo
I - Show EXIF info summary on image
keys_decoration
d - Remove decoration. Unreliable,
you might loose control or key
bindings.
keys_focusthumbs
t - Restore and focus thumbnails
keys_imgpos_nw
Alt-u - Set image position to nw
keys_imgpos_n
Alt-i - Set image position to n
keys_imgpos_ne
Alt-o - Set image position to ne
keys_imgpos_e
Alt-l - Set image position to e
keys_imgpos_se
Alt-period - Set image position to se
keys_imgpos_s
Alt-comma - Set image position to s
keys_imgpos_sw
Alt-m - Set image position to sw
keys_imgpos_w
Alt-j - Set image position to w
keys_imgpos_c
Alt-k - Set image position to c
keys_crop
Control-y - Crop image to selection box

- selection less picky
- selection from zoom other than original
- Save, Save as ...

Titles and decoration behavior

- adjust height/width of screen-fit images to decoration
(I just cannot get $iv->overrideredirect (1) to work as I want)

Tree view

- Hide dirs above dt root
- Allow a set of dirs from the command line
- Make pirstnext and firstprev look in the original folder if the
image folder actually been viewed is a symlink in the parent folder